On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:30 AM, JK <jknapka@kneuro.net> wrote:

> I'm not particularly interested whether changes to the
> hypothetical wiki would or would not be incorporated into it.
> I'm curious about what would *happen* if a globally-available
> and easily-annotatable version of the manual existed.  If

I kind of think of this mailing list that way.  I fear it's sometimes
more daunting to have too many good sources of info available.  I
personally have at least a footing for finding the info I need in most
cases, so it doesn't matter much to me, but I tend to agree that the
current manual process is the way to go.  More casual, personal, and
maybe even more useful ideas crop up on the mailing list, which is
archived, and rigorous no-nonsense stuff can be found in the manual.

The Pure Data community, for a while, was putting up new Wikis and
websites and forums every couple of weeks, and most fell into disuse,
because people generally want to know one or two places to go in the
beginning.
If anything I feel like there's a shortage of mid-level tutorials.
I've read maybe a dozen tutorials on how to make a simple orchestra,
to use some basic sampling, etc.  I'd rather learn more details about
scanned synthesis, granular, PVS opcodes, filtering, spatial
processing, more advanced stuff.

So if you feel it, go with it, but I'd be prepared for it not to catch
on right away.

-Chuckk

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